Then we all sneaked up to him and got our first look at
the town.
"It looked to me as though the place had been made to hide in. The
mountain dropped away below us, straight down about a hundred feet, a
smooth rock wall. Another wall of rock joined it on the right, making
a big L. There was a level that began at the two walls and extended
both ways for probably half a mile, until it met the slope of the other
side of the mountain. It was nothing but two shoulders, joined, on the
top of the mountain.
"Just below us there was a break in the level--a wide gash about fifty
feet across, so deep that we couldn't see the bottom. There was a
ledge on our side about three or four feet wide, and a bridge stretched
from it across the canyon. We decided that the bridge was the one
Queza had told the boys about--it led to the cave where the treasure
was kept. We laid there for an hour, watching. The buildings were all
huddled together--a lot of flat, brown adobe houses. We could see the
natives moving down among them, but none of us noticed anything unusual
going on until Taggart calls our attention.
"'Did you notice?' he said.
"'Notice what?' we all answered.
"'That they're all women down there--I ain't seen a man!'
"That was a fact. There didn't seem to be a man anywhere about.
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